Category - WWE

Smackdown rebounded in terms of viewership this week as yesterday’s show pulled in 2,501,000 viewers, up 241,000 viewers from the previous week. It was the best rated episode since the February 4 show. (Ratings credit: Showbuzzdaily.com)

John Laurinaitis, the former Raw General Manager and now a producer for WWE, got married to Kathy Colace yesterday. Colace is the mother of Nikki and Brie Bella.
The two got hitched on a yacht in Ft Lauderdale, Florida, during a ceremony which was attended by several family and friends including John Cena. Daniel Bryan didn’t appear in any of...

Ryan Satin of ProWrestlingSheet.com is reporting that Brie Bella will be retiring following the Raw after WrestleMania.
While the retirement of Brie shouldn’t come as a surprise as she said she’ll hang up her boots after the Summer, her quick exit was not part of the plans. Satin reports that Daniel Bryan was removed from all upcoming...

WWE Shop is running a big sale this weekend with up to 30% off on all items using the code SAVEMORE at check-out.
Those spending over $40 will get 25% off while those who spend more than $75 will get 30% off, making this weekend an ideal time to buy your WrestleMania merchandise at a discount. Also, all replica title belts are 20% off. The sale...

WWE.COM reported today that Australians Michael Nicholls and Shane Veryzer – known to wrestling fans as the tag team duo The Mighty Don’t Kneel – have signed with WWE.
Nicholls and Veryzer are relocating to Orlando, Florida, and will start at the WWE Performance Center in early April as part of a new NXT class.
The two have wrestled...

The second match moved to the WrestleMania Kickoff show is The Usos vs The Dudley Boyz tag team match, joining the Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal on the two hour pre-show.
This means that for the third straight year in a row The Usos will miss being on the pay-per-view as at both WrestleMania 30 and 31 they performed in fatal 4 way matches...

ESPN SportsCenter will host several WWE personalities during WrestleMania week starting on Monday morning.
Brock Lesnar will kick things off on March 28 starting at 8:45AM EST and then at 10:30AM EST as well. Stephanie McMahon joins the broadcast on March 29 at 10:30AM EST, followed by her husband Triple H on the same day at 9PM EST. On March 30...

WWE announced that on April 4 there will be a conference call starting at 3PM EST to reveal the new WWE Network subscribers number just a day following WrestleMania 32.
Chief Strategy and Financial Officer George Barrios will be hosting the conference call and the press release does not mention that Chairman and CEO Vince McMahon will be present...

Hundreds of workers have started constructing the WrestleMania 32 set inside the AT&T Stadium and construction is set to go through all the way until a few days before the actual show.
The field has already been fully covered with the grass removed to allow trucks, other heavy vehicles, and tons of equipment to be moved in without damaging the...

Former WWE World Heavyweight champion Daniel Bryan has been removed from his scheduled WrestleMania Axxess autograph signing on April 2 and will no longer be appearing in front of fans.
Those who purchased the very expensive ticket to meet him will now instead meet Hall of Famer Shawn Michaels. Tons of tickets to meet Daniel Bryan at Axxess went...

The WWE app for iOS and Android devices got an update pushed out yesterday which revolves mainly around enhancing the WrestleMania experience.
Perhaps the most important part of the update is multi-lingual support for upcoming WWE pay-per-view events starting with WrestleMania. Apart from English, WrestleMania will be offered in five different...

WWE Network unveiled its WrestleMania week programming which will kick off on Monday, March 28.
Following Raw, the new WWE 24 episode titled Thank You Daniel will air, looking at Daniel Bryan’s farewell with behind-the-scenes look at what happened on that day leading up to his Raw announcement.
On Tuesday at 8PM EST it will be Legends with JBL...

WWE announced that the current Tag Team champions The New Day will be inducting the Fabulous Freebirds into the WWE Hall of Fame come April 2.
This has come as a bit of a surprise since Kevin Von Erich was wildly expected to be doing the honors for group considering the history between the Von Erichs and the Freebirds. The New Day obviously have...

The good news for Total Divas is that the ratings went up. The bad news is that it barely went up. This week’s episode, titled No Retreat did 663,000 viewers, up just 13,000 viewers from last week. (Ratings credit: Showbuzzdaily.com)

The penultimate Raw before WrestleMania drew a total of 3,399,000 viewers, down for the fourth straight in a row. The show had 58,000 viewers less from last week’s broadcast.
Hour one started with 3,466,000 viewers, then dropped slightly to 3,416,000 viewers before going further down to 3,317,000 in the third and final hour.
Just for comparison...

Apart from the canceled Appreciation Night at Madison Square Garden, WWE has seemingly pulled Daniel Bryan from the upcoming European WrestleMania Revenge Tour where he was supposed to do 5 appearances.
Last month WWE announced that Daniel Bryan would be appearing at the Smackdown tapings in London, England, on April 19 and even produced a video...

WWE has canceled – or as they put it, postponed – the Daniel Bryan Appreciation Night which was set for Madison Square Garden this coming Friday.
The actual event is still going to take place but the Daniel Bryan portion is not and Madison Square Garden is claiming a scheduling conflict in an e-mail to those who purchased a...

Total Divas on E! returns tonight with episode 10 of season 5 titled No Retreat.
The synopsis for tonight’s show reads, “Paige gets cold feet after agreeing to help a fan come out to his family, Brie is torn between her friends and Bryan when she takes them on a meditation retreat, and Eva is tasked with forming a tag team with rookie Mandy...

Former WCW champion Sting told WWE.COM in an exclusive interview that he will not be undergoing surgery for his neck problem and that he’s “feeling good and completely normal.”
Sting said that he wouldn’t not go under the knife unless he absolutely has to and as long as he’s feeling good, he’s not doing it...